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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 1 - 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pammy try to point out to her mother as they walk Pine Street at the start of the story?
(a) Purple flowers.
(b) The nice houses.
(c) All the traffic.
(d) The rain clouds.

2. What instrument did Pammy play briefly when she was younger?
(a) Piccolo.
(b) Harp.
(c) Trumpet.
(d) Drums.

3. What does Alma recall Paul, Sr. doing the time Pammy slapped her?
(a) He yelled at Alma for bugging Pammy.
(b) He punished Pammy for two weeks.
(c) He walked by and said nothing.
(d) He slapped her back.

4. Who is the author of "Mother's Day"?
(a) George Saunders.
(b) George Orwell.
(c) John Cheever.
(d) David Foster Wallace.

5. What does Alma recall doing when she had once found Paul, Sr. passed out on their porch?
(a) She kicked him.
(b) She called the cops on him.
(c) She poured cold water on his head.
(d) She helped him to bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alma wish Pammy would have worn on their Mother's Day outing?

2. Who is Elieen who Alma recalls when thinking of Pammy and Paulie's younger days?

3. What does Paulie claim his father did to him when he punched him in the groin when he was young?

4. Why did Alma begin wearing "the wildest underthings" (4) when her children were young?

5. What does Pammy wear while out with her mother on Mother's Day?

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